Thanks Rand for this excellent post on matching keyword relevancy with visitor intent.

I am interested in learning the average bounce rate for the Search industry, for key phrases like seo, seo services, and so on. Is there any study like that? Are people sharing their data somewhere? If not, would SEOmoz consider having a survey?

Like rest of the other 57% respondents so far, getting inbound links is the toughest part of my SEO work as well.

Even if you may have great quality link-worthy content on your website, it does not guarantee 100's of automatic links. Unless you know how to promote your content, you may end up getting absolutely 0 links for your greatest article. Ultimately it comes down to marketing what-ever you do. Be it marketing your services, marketing your website or marketing your content. If you can do it well - well then you are the King.

You covered all the aspects, one should know about URLs. Unarguably, URL's should be short and make sense to both users and search engines.

However as Matt Cutts points out, don't cut or hide important parameters just for the sake of making URL's shorter - let Google handle it. It treats both static and dynamic url's equally. It is essentialy a usability issue and can definitaly increase clickthrough rates and help spread it.